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Trump Hydroxychloroquine Push Secured Millions of Likely Useless Coronavirus Pills

New York TimesJune 16, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s abrupt decision this week to revoke an emergency waiver for two malaria drugs promoted by President...

The US government will make a coronavirus vaccine free to ‘vulnerable’ Americans, a senior Operation Warp Speed official pledges

Business InsiderJune 16, 2020

The US government will make a coronavirus vaccine free to vulnerable Americans, a senior administration official said. The pricing pledge was made on a...

Regeneron to begin trials for COVID-19 antibody cocktail

Covid19June 11, 2020

Biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said today that it is launching a series of clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of an...

FCC approves 53 telehealth applications; Amwell files for IPO; Evidation partners with BARDA

Venture CapitalJune 5, 2020

Virtual care, week of 6/5/20 In a strange way, healthcare seems to be reverting back to a style that had gone out of fashion...

Reasonable to expect some coronavirus vaccine by year-end, Pentagon researcher says

ReutersJune 2, 2020

An undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient...

Could Cell Therapy Target the Symptoms of Severe Covid-19?

BiotechnologyMay 25, 2020

The excessive inflammatory response seen in the most serious cases of Covid-19, along with shortages of ventilators, has caused a healthcare crisis in...

U.S. government commits $1.2 billion to production of Oxford Coronavirus vaccine; to be available beginning in October

StartupsMay 21, 2020

In a race to find drugs and vaccine that can cure the coronavirus and treat patients with COVID-19, the U.S. government announced it is...

Trump Says More Testing Makes U.S. ‘Look Bad,’ But Its Availability Remains A Concern

NPRMay 11, 2020

Enlarge this image President Trump, seen here in the Oval Office on May 6, holds...

‘I am not disgruntled’: Top scientist who was fired and then filed a whistleblower complaint rejects Trump’s label and says the US government ‘could...

Business InsiderMay 8, 2020

Rick Bright, the Department of Health and Human Services scientist who was reassigned last month and then filed a whistleblower complaint, disputed the...